What am I doing wrong? Astrophotography looks like crap.

What am I doing wrong? Astrophotography looks like crap. : r/S22Ultra

It may look dark just outside our homes in the middle of the night, but there will be still be light pollution and makes it difficult for ...

Why are my images so bad still haha - Beginning Deep Sky Imaging

Your spacing distance camera to flattener looks too close to my eyes anyway, and I agree with the above posts I would reduce your exposure ...

What caused my astrophotography images to come out hazy?

The limits of your lens. If you were tracking the sky this would be more in play. As it is the movement of the sky caused most of the blur in ...

How To Process Bad Astrophotography Photos - YouTube

In this video, will show you how to process a bad Astrophotography photo and make it look better using photoshop.

Am I doing something wrong? - AstroBin

Preprocessing is very important. The Seestar does stack the images right away, are you doing the whole process of stacking and calibrating ...

So what am I doing wrong?: Astrophotography Talk Forum Forum

As for the halos around brighter stars, take a look at the stars in the upper corners, using a magnified view. The mis-shaped star images are ...

astrophotography - Capturing the Milky Way: what did I do wrong?

If you shoot the night sky at ISO 100 and ISO 3200, you have to boost the exposure of the ISO 100 image by FIVE STOPS in post. The problem is, ...

Disappointed after first Milky Way shot: Astrophotography Talk ...

For your first try, it's really not that bad, however you really do need a new camera and lens if you wish to get serious about astrophotograhy.

Common Image Problems - Las Cumbres Observatory

This is due to a bad flat field. Contaminants (e.g. dust, oil) from the telescope's optics can be seen in the image. Next step. Send link to the data to ...

Falling Into The Worst ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY TRAP - YouTube

I talk about how I messed up in my most recent astrophotography video, the embarrassment, and how I'm moving forward to get past the ...

Astrophotography | I am horrible at the editing of these pictures

Richard Passmore From what I gather darks are cap on shots, but I don't know what a flat is yet. I am using DeepSkyStacker for now. on Sat.

Astrophotography Beginner Needs Help - Fstoppers

the darks frames could be taken after the imaging session is complete. Just put the lens cap on and shoot about 10-20 frames of the same ...

Mixing good and not so good data OR should I stop imaging in my ...

Not bad focus or bad tracking, but otherwise good frames suffering from a bright background. I've even seen some user comments along those lines ...

Flats not being subtracted - Astro Pixel Processor

There was a 'Master Flat' and a 'Bad Pixel Map' created and applied per the file window. What did I do wrong? My imaging equipment is an ASI294MC-Pro taken ...

Astrophotography mode: what am I doing wrong? - Page 2

But I could get decent 30 second exposures. The S24 is awful. Doesn't have real raw files and overprocesses astro shots making them awful.

astrophotography stacking alignment - V2 Bugs found on Windows

If you don't have any dark frames applied, then you should use the Bad Pixel Tool to manually mark all the stuck/hot pixels. This will exclude ...

Help - I Don't Know What I Did Wrong :( - Andromeda

Try it and see. Take a 5 sec at a high iso then zoom in look for star trails/elongated stars. If none use 5 sec. If you do see trails etc drop ...

How to Shoot the Night Sky (Introduction to Astrophotography)

That is to superimpose one image on top of the others (not all the images, but pictures belonging to the same series). You can do this with a free software ...

Bad Exposures (Kidney Beans?) - Beginner & Questions

depends on control you use for guiding, the guiding system always do a waiting before continue (example PHD2) also Voyager monitoring the amount ...

Bursting with Light - Dear Bubbles

The HDR approach aims to expand the dynamic range for an image—but it requires at least three or more images to do so. (Some photographers like ...